Muskrat Settings Help

[Jim Stafford]

One thing, I forgot to back off the ISO

 

[TwoRails]

No photo....

 

[Jim Stafford]

Duh

 

[stsinner]

That picture is way too busy and confusing for me...

 

[uplander]

Is this the same lens as the other posts?
The subject is over exposed and most of the pic very soft or slightly out of focus.

 

[Jim Stafford]

Yes, it is the same lens, Aperture Priority, 1/160, F8, ISO 1600. By this time the light was bright and I was looking back into it. I should have backed off the ISO. The Muskrat was coing at me. I took a series of pics, was very dissappointed, this was the best.

 

[uplander]

I'm starting to suspect your lens may be the culpret! your AF may be out of whack! I looked at the exif info, depite the high ISO the pic should be sharper.

 

[Jim Stafford]

Did you see all my threads, I think I have 4 going, geese, mallards, morning doe and muskrat. Something is up, I should be getting much better pics than I am

 

[uplander]

Yes I looked at them all, They are all very soft, makes me suspect the lens.

 

[Jim Stafford]

I have another lens I can play with. The one I used was an EF-S 55-250 F4-5.6 with IS. I also have an EF 75-300 F4-5.6.

It almost seems like I can get good pics up close at 200mm but not at a distance. The greater the distance the worse it is. By up close I mean using it in a macro sense like flowers.

It is getting pretty frustrating

 

[Harmony]

Not to imply anything: I manage to do this a lot: are you sure that you're lens is set to AF? It might be on MF by mistake...

 

[dhilberg]

One thing to consider: Is the IS enabled in this shot? Not sure how Canon works, but Nikon's VR needs a second or two to stabilize, at least my 18-200mm VR does. If you take the photo before the VR(IS) stabilizes, you'll get blurry shots. I had plenty of these when I first got my VR lens.